Thursday, May 15, 2008

I don't know if the camera footage is real or staged... but it looks like a real fight... and it's freakin' funny! If someone's beating someone up on the street or truly beating on someone's ass in a video... that's certainly not funny. Maybe it's not the violence itself, it's the losing of his temper. Still, when someone loses the temper, that's when people get hurt, that's when people get killed, etc. Nothing good comes from someone losing their temper... or at least that's probably the case most of the time.

That was very weird. I didn't find it funny but if I had watched it before you asked, "Why is violence funny?" I might have laughed because I would not have been watching it critically, if that makes sense. It's also odd that when people fall and get hurt, people often find it funny. Maybe it's funny because it's unexpected?

I think anger is fine, and I think that the problem is that many people do not know appropriate ways to express their anger so they end up kicking the shit out of someone.

I don't really get angry... stuff that might anger people just makes me sad at the stoopidity of people and the world.

And I totally disagree that it's funny when someone who deserves it gets trounced. A trouncing = violence, right? Violence can just not be funny, I think.

And yeah, it makes total sense, Sugar Mag, that you might've laughed... I kinda spoiled the humor in the video by asking the question first if violence is funny. Whoops.

And yeah again, it is funny when people fall... sometimes. I LOVE watching that show America's Funniest Home Videos -- so much is so funny, it's so great to laugh!!! But sometimes some of those videos have someone getting hurt, I'm sure of it, and always at those videos I don't laugh, not a single bit. Someone getting hurt isn't funny... unless they laugh about it first and it's not a bad injury.